Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
THE NEWS.

Fire at Grafton, W. Va, Tuesday of
last week. destroyed 2s buildings. Loss
100000.
The Union Labor of Ohio nominated
Hon John Seitz, of Seneca county, for
governor.
The excess of government expendi
lures over receipts since July l is
S10.0S9. sos.
The county commissioners at Zanes
vile have signed a contract for a S50,000I
Memorial Hall.
]. E. town marshal of Lewiston, ILL.,,
was shot and killed by drunken fell
low named George Wild.
Andrew Green was fatally burned by
an explosion of a gasoline tank in the
Standard Oil Cos refinery at Lima, o.
The post office at Astoria. L. l., has
been robbed of a book of blank postal
notes and the punches used in issuing
them.
All bonds of the U S per cent. loan
have been redeemed except $3.50 ,05G,
and these have been called, but not yet
presented.
Roscoe CoDkling says he does not see
why James G Blaine should not be able
physically to stand another Presidential
campaign.
The Horticultural Society of Dayton,
O., has decided that there was never
greater failure of orchard fruits than
this year.
Assistant Jailer Tim Anderson, of
Huntsville. Ala, was killed by prison
er, Reid Townsend, who had a grudge
against him.
Some very gloomy reports are coming
from Southern Minnesota about damage
to crops of all kinds by drouth and
chinch.bugs.
Of 169 citizens of Springfield, O., in
terviewed for Presidential preferences,
1O1 were for Blaine, sc for Sherman and
for Foraker.
Immence numbers of locusts have ap-
peared in the vicinity of Bertha, Mimi,
and thousands of acres of crops have
been destroyed.
Rev DIR McGlynn has been elected
delegate from New York to the National
Convention of the United Labor party
at Syracuse, August Is.
A bird released at Spartanhurg, C.
flew to Germantown,'Pa a distance of
$40 miles (air line) in Is hours and Z
N inu te. the best record ever made.
Terrific thunder storms ragged along
lAk TT =,
York Wednesday afternoon of last week
and the murcury fell % . in three hours.
James D. Reese, of Winchester. KY,
having been disappointed in love, jump
ed from a third story window of his
fathers hotel and was instantly killed.
A New York boy put a lighted ciga
rette into pocket containing stolen dy-
Mantle cartridges. so that his mother
would not see him smoke, and he is
dead.
Sam Breen, of Graysville. Ga, was
taken by a mob and terribly whipped
for having used disparaging remarks
about respectable young lady of that
place.
du uOu Lco, d ODludmouJ HhO
graduated at Yale. has married Eliza
beth Maud Jerome, New Haven heir
ess, and will enter the journalistic field
in that city.
Cias Doll, Democratic member of the
old Board of Public Works, of Cincinna-
ii, has been convicted of having an in
terest in city contracts while an officer
of the city.
A collection of relics illustrating the
life, habits and characteristics of pre-
historic man has been opened to public
exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute,
Washington.
A political organization called "The
American party" has been formed in
San Francisco, Cal, after a three days
secret session of delegates from various
parts of the state.
The books of the Fidelity National
bank of Cincinnati were so loosely kept
that they are reported not to show the
actual condition of the bank on the day
of suspension within 100000.
Secretary Edicott has issued an order
against any information being furnish
ed to the press from the records of the
War Department until it has first been
submitted to him, and its publication
approved of by him.
George Wargo and Joseph LaZer, of
Derringer, Pa, went to Hazleton to wit
ness the celebration of the Fourth, and
got drunk. Returning home in that con-
dition, Wargo shot and killed Lazer.
The murderer was arrested.
The summit of Mt Hood, the tallest
snow covered peak in Oregon IL, 720 feet
high, was Illuminated on the Fourth
with 100 pounds of red fire. The light
was visible Is miles away. A party ofl
seven men performed the feat.
When the vault of the Perry county,
Ind, Treasurer Office was opened with
tie keys returned by the absconding
Treasurer, Miller, it contained only
pair OF suspenders and three two-cent
stamps. Miller's defalcation amounts to
$4,000.
The town of Clarendon, Pa, Tuesday |
of last week, was totally destroyed by
an incendiary fire started in an old plan
ing mill. The area burned over is about |
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depot of the Philadelphia and Erie rail
road is the only building saved.
The Missouri Supreme Court, in the
case of Brooks, alias Maxwell. con
demned for the murder of G. Arthur
Preller, overruled the motion for a re
hearing. A reprieve was granted the
defendant until August 26. The defense
will take an appeal to the US. Supreme
Court.
The Utah Constitutional convention
has agreed upon q section stating that
bigamy and polygamy being considered
incompatible with republican form of
government each is made a misdemean+
or. The section is not to be amended |
without approval of President and
congress.
The complete prohibition ticket, nom-